Nom de Plume

Nom de Plume is an anonymous, collaborative storytelling platform.

It's live and playable at http://secretstorytime.com/. This is the source code.

One featured story at a time:

A gallery of previous stories:

If you want to try running it, here are the many many steps:

• clone the repo
• bundle install to get the dependencies for the rails app
• register with twilio and get your phone number, SID, and token
• create a file at config/application.yml with that information, which looks like this:

TWILIO_SID: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
TWILIO_TOKEN: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
TWILIO_NUMBER: "+15555555555"
PERSONAL_NUMBER: "+15555555554"

• create a file at config/database.yml with the standard rails 3.2.13 contents (it's not in our repo because ours is customized for deployment):

# SQLite version 3.x
#   gem install sqlite3
#
#   Ensure the SQLite 3 gem is defined in your Gemfile
#   gem 'sqlite3'
development:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/development.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/test.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

production:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/production.sqlite3
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

• rake db:migrate to setup your database
• rake db:seed to seed your database, which...
  • creates a bunch of random opening lines
  • creates an admin user
  • creates a participant user
  • creates a first story with a random opening line
  • chooses you to continue the story
  • sends you a text message
• rails s to start the server
• localtunnel 3000 to expose the rails app publicly
• visit the twilio manage numbers page, choose your number, and change the SMS request URL to <whatever your localtunnel address is>/receive
• rackup faye.ru -s thin -E production to start your faye server
• visit it at http://localhost:3000

You should see the first line of your story and be able to text in a message.

Made by

• Sagar - twitter / github
• Sarah - twitter / github
• Kristen - twitter / github
• Max - twitter / github

At The Flatiron School twitter / github